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Donghui Zhang

Has left Northeastern University.
He is now a Senior Research SDE in Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab.
email: dozhanATmicrosoft.com
phone: 608-310-3366

Professor Donghui Zhang received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of California -- Riverside. Since then, he has been working as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer & Information Science, Northeastern University. Professor Zhang's primary research area is databases. In particular, indexing and query optimization in spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal databases. Many real application data have spatial and/or temporal dimensions. For instance, the locations of apartment buildings, cars, mobile-phone users which may or may not change over time. The concern is how to index such objects and how to efficiently compute the result of interesting queries. Professor Zhang received the NSF CAREER Award: Fast Query Support for Emerging Spatial Database Applications. He has written five book chapters and published about thirty peer-refereed research papers. He has served on the panels of two NSF programs. He was a co-PC Chair of SSTD'07. He was on the Program Committees of various international conferences including VLDB (2009, 2008, 2005), ICDE (2009, 2008, 2007, 2004).

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TEACHING

Spring'09 office hours: W 2:30-5:30pm.

Spring'09: CSG130: Introduction to Database Systems

Databases (graduate level)
COM3315: Principles of Database Systems (Fall'02, Spring'03)
CSG130: Introduction to Database Systems (Fall'05, Fall'06, Fall'07, Fall'08, Spring'09)
CSG131: Implementation of Database Systems (Spring'06, Spring'07)
Databases (undergraduate level)
COM1315: Introduction to Database Systems ( Winter'03)
CSU430: Database Design (Spring'04)
Data Mining (graduate level)
CSG339: Special Topics in Database Management -- Data Mining (Fall'03)
CSG230: Data Mining Techniques (Fall'04, Spring'07, Spring'08, Fall'08)
Data Mining (undergraduate level)
CSU900: Computer Science Topics -- Data Mining Techniques ( Summer'05)
Spatial Databases (graduate level)
CSG339: Special Topics in Database Management -- Algorithms in Spatial Databases and Computational Geometry ( Spring'08)
Systems and Networks
CSU480: Systems and Networks ( Spring'06)

SERVICES

NSF Panel member, 2003, 2005.
PC Co-Chair: International Symposium on Large Spatio-Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2007.
Program Committee member for
- International Conference for Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2005, 2008, 2009.
- International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009.
- International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2004.
- International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2008.
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006.
- International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2006.
- ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ( GIS), 2007, 2008.
- International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2007, 2008.
- International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2009.
- ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE), 2006, 2007.
- International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management (STDBM), 2006.
- Workshop on Mining Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data (SSTDM), 2006, 2007.
- VLDB Ph.D. Workshop, 2005, 2006, 2007.
- SIGMOD Ph.D. Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR), 2007, 2008.
- International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS), 2007.
- Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DMU), 2007.
Journal referee for
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2004, 2007, 2008.
- VLDB Journal (VLDBJ), 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008.
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2003, 2004, 2005.
- Information Sciences (INS), 2003, 2004, 2005.
- Information Systems (IS), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
- GeoInformatica, 2007.
- Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2006, 2007.
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
- Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 2005, 2008.
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2004.
- Information Processing Letters (IPL), 2003, 2005.
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2006.
- Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2007.
- Computer Journal, 2008.
Grant proposal referee for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (RGC), 2004, 2005, 2008.
Local Arrangement Chair for the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2004.
Registration Chair for the 7th Int. Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2001.

PH.D. STUDENTS

Tian Xia, 2007. Thesis: "Subspace and Relaxed Skyline Query Processing". Joined Oracle.
Yang Du, 2009. Thesis: "Optimal-Location Queries in Spatial Databases". Joined Microsoft.

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